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Saturday, July 7, 2012

Obsessing 7 - Meanings of Seven

So what does seven actually mean? Well here in the mundane world, it comes after six and before eight, its just a symbol that represents an amount. Sometimes we know it as a lucky number, but in times past, it has important significance. It carries mystical meaning because it relates to the seven days of creation, seven chakras, the seven colors of the spectrum, seven planets, seven notes in the scale, seven days of the week, seven archangels, seven deadly sins, seven sages to name a few.

So what if four was replaced by seven in our current dominant musical meterical structure? What would happen? Would our consciousness start to change and vibrate with the higher realms? There are monks who chant the seven vowel sounds to alter their consciousness. What if we could do that with our own rhythms so that seven would be as natural as four is now? Could we exist simultaneously on the 7th dimension instead of being ruled by the fourth? Its just a rhythm... or is it?